A little more on Community Supported Agriculture

With all the talk lately about climate change, economic localization, and the transition to a post-oil world, local food is getting a lot of attention. Providing for our own food needs as locally as possible seems almost a no-brainer in our looming energy descent future, but the question of how we get there looms large [...]

The Long Goodbye

Okay, so nobody ever accused me of being good with time. I’ve owed this blog a windup post for a long time, but have been putting it off because it’s hard to know where to start.  So I guess I’ll just start with the truth:  My days at the Farmhouse Farm are over. As I [...]

Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Vancouver – October 2009!

As promised, I am officially offering a Certificate in Permaculture Design course to take place over 4 weeks this October.  Details below: Announcing a full Permaculture Design Certificate course right here in Vancouver! Learn the principles of design and implementation of sustainable human systems and how we can apply them where we live, right now.  [...]

Chickens, Elitism, and the NAFTA Flu

I saw an article in the Vancouver Courier a few days ago talking about a Vancouverite who had recently returned from Indonesia, where backyard chickens have been banned as a response to fears over avian flu. He was “shocked” to learn that Vancouver is considering legalizing backyard chickens and was outraged; we’ll all die of [...]

Urgent! Farmhouse Farm Needs Your Help!

This is a callout to anyone who believes that food is a human right, and that nobody has the right to stand in the way of growing food and living as we choose. As I found out today, Vancouver has something called the “Untidy Premises Bylaw” which unequivocally says that if you do something different [...]

Summer Workshops!

New workshops added to the schedule, including Permaculture Water Conservation Strategies and Introduction to Permaculture.  Check out the Upcoming Workshops and Events page for details.  For more info or to register, email to farmhousefarm (at) gmail (dot) com.

A Hundred Square Feet of Permaculture: 10 x 10 garden workshop in New Westminster

I’m running another 10 x 10 Garden workshop this Sunday (June 21), in New Westminster near 16th and Edinburgh. Email for details and registration. Info below: The 10 X 10 Garden: A Hundred Square Feet of Permaculture Do you want to grow more of your own food, but don’t know where to begin? Think you [...]

News Flash: Everything Stays the Same When People Do Nothing!

Tonight I feel a bit of what it must have felt like to be an American in 2004 when George Bush got “elected” again.  Final results aren’t in yet, but it looks like four more years of Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals, which means four more years of privatization, child poverty, police violence, and [...]

An Open Letter to Alan Weisman

I recently finished reading “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman.  The basic premise is, what would happen if suddenly all of us humans vanished form the Earth?  Not through war or natural disaster or by any other means that might likewise devastate other organisms, but if all the humans were simply and suddenly gone.  [...]

Kate’s Beautiful Alley Garden

My friend Kate had me over the other day (lucky me) and we poked around in her yard looking for extra gardening space.  We spotted some unused space hiding in the back alley, and Kate wasted no time getting down to making it beautiful! Here’s her take on it: It was a very empowering exersize [...]